KOTA KINABALU, May 6, 2018: Voters here deserve a strong voice in Parliament after being neglected by their DAP elected representatives for the past 10 years, Sabah Progressive Party president Datuk Yong Teck Lee said.

Yong, who is among the three contenders for the Kota Kinabalu Parliamentary seat, said he was committed to being a strong voice for Sabahans in Parliament.

(The others were Barisan Nasional’s Dr Henry Lee who contested under the DAP ticket for Putatan in 2013 and Chan Foong Hin of DAP, the former Sri Tanjung State Assemblyman.)

KOTA KINABALU, May 5, 2018: The Sabah government must compel the national oil company Petronas to get its approval to continue operating in its territorial waters off the state, economist Zainnal Ajamain said.

He said Sabah, like Sarawak has asserted their rights in the resource-rich territorial waters in the South China Sea by rejecting the Territorial Seas Act 2012 (Act 750).

Zainnal said Sarawak has ordered Petronas to apply for its Mineral Exploration Licence as an implicit way to impose its ownership of the state’s territorial waters.